Friday, January 26, 2007
-6:32 PM
Sry for not posting for so long(even though I'm not sure whether anyone reads it), was kinda busy. Anyway, I am already participating in the badminton competition ( for Sec 2 one leh), but, I'm playing reserves. Yeah.
Both competition days were the same, we were crazy. I mean it. We sang on the bus for the journey the whole way. The matches were boring to me, cause' I couldn't play lah. But watching us win 2 schools made me very happy, and furthermore, I could get the badminton jersey for free.
Anyway today after the competition ended, we went to Macs for celebration. The only reason I went was because my seniors were treating me. It was then that I discovered a erm, weird C Division boys traidtion. It's sort of like a drinking game, just that if you lose, you don't need to drink. But don't worry, the game didn't lose a single element of fun. If you lose, you have to eat a disgusting delicacy. For this one, they mixed some coke with some MacFlurry, two packets of chilli and one chewed up chicken wing. Pointless? Of course, that is the main point. Sensible? You decide. Fun? Of course.
Yeah, so C Division Boys are crazy. That's why I love them!!
Friday, January 12, 2007
-10:11 PM
I assure you this post is not going to be very long. I'm gonna talk not about what happen in school, but what happen
going back from school. You see, I was leaving school from badminton and happen to see Xiao Hui with one of his friends. Didn't really know that friend of his, but we went onto the bus together. After Xiao Hui got of at his stop, that person started a conversation with me. And really, I noticed that there was something different about him. The way he talks, the things that he took about, extremely different from a typical teenage boy at this age. It gives me enough confidence to throw away all masquearades and be completely honest with each other. And then he asked the question, "Are you Christian?" And I was actually quite surprised that he(most probably knew, cause he didn't ask "What religion?" ) Turns out, both of us were Christians. And God really spoke to me and I suddenly remembered this verse. I was thinking about it through the rest of our journey home, which trust me, felt very short cause of our conversation.
"The light of the righteous shines brightly." Proverbs 13:6 Really, we as Christians have to live the life for Christ. Before non-Christians can believe that Jesus Christ is credible, they have to know that you are credible. "Preach always, and if necessary, use words." St. Francis. Our life, even without us saying anything, has to make a scream for Christ. We need to live a life worthy of Christ's death and righteousness, and when we do, the bible says our light will shine brightly. We need to be completely different from the pattern of this world. And i suddenly remember why I chose this blogskin in the first place. I'll summarise this post with a quote from the song "Live the life" by Michael W SMith.
"For the world to know the truth, there can be no greater proof, than to live the life, live the life. There's no love as quite as pure, there's no pain we can't endure, if we live the life, live the life. Be a light for all to see, for every act of love will set you free."
Living the life for Christ.
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
-4:23 PM
Ok, Monday was the last day of Mission Impossible Orientation 2007. I won't type a post as long as the other time; I'll just tell you about our performance. Here's the thing about it: it rocked!! Our class should have won 1st prize!! But nevermind. Anyway, 会有那么一天 for me will always be connectedto 1F'07. I will forever remember Mission Impossible Orientation 2007.
Yeah, I feel like changing blogskin. Getting bored of this skin. Hooray! This is my shortest post in the history of my blog! Alright!
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
-5:40 PM
1st dayI was pretty smiley; everything made me smile.
The bus ride made me smile. I was laughing at how terrible the ride is and how the engine must be made out of rust. The briefing in the LT1 made me smile; the teacher was so funny. (involuntarily) The entry into the school hall made me smile; we were greeted be applause, cheers and a standing ovation. That was really nice. The perfomance by the dance troupe was so funny. It was like the school wanted to choose the type of dance they want performed, so they put a suggestion box outside the office. Of course, they were many ideas, so they said,"I know! Let's have all of them!" It is that funny. They were Chinese, Malay and erm...what looked to be Thai. The first song the chorale sang made me smile, it sounded like a African folk song, which was nice. The second song made me struggle to not burst out laughing. The principal's speech, should that bring a smile to my face? Probably.
Back at class, the form teachers made me smile, cause' of how slow and extremely boring they were just because of "administrative matters". After that was icebreakers, where the PSLs played with us. (yeah, our PSLs were qiaowei, kenderick and wei cheng. I wonder whether si min is a PSL. there was a person from the council, but i forgot his name, which i really didn't mean to. Let's just call him
well-spoken man.) The games made me smile, cause' of how funny it is. I won't go into the details, but you have to remember everyone's names. (which I didn't really)
Breaktime, and all Lasallians met up. We walked around school, and we saw a dead large-tailed nightjar. (a bird I always wanted to see) That made me smile. You might take I'm a sick retard, but I realised that God knew it when this bird fell and clothed it with those beautiful feathers. Never do I have to worry again.
After that, we went on the school tour, which brought a smile to my face. Why? I have no idea. We still had a few minutes late, so a cheering war started between the classes, in which we were quite high. The 1hr briefing brought a smile to my first, because I fell asleep. After that, we learnt the school song. The school song brought a smile to my face, because of nice(like a chinese folk song, actually it is Chinese, but very hard to sing) and how the lyrics is full of meaning.Lunch. hmmm. Should it bring a smile to my face?
The mass dance. The PSLs demonstrated the dance to us, and it really brought a smile to my face. Fortunately, we did not need to it as we will learn it the next dar.
Peer support session. si min and
well-spoken man wasn't there, so there shoudn't be a PSL. We played wacko. But didn't really bring a smile to my face. But the mocking and the
saboing was endless. My PSL started it by calling Livia my "darling", just because I kept argueing with her, which really does not make sense. Then, I was made to do a forfeit cause I accidentally wacked someone in wacko, which was not in the rules at all. And i was sure the mocking would never end. "yeah, you found something not to smile about." wrong. For some reason, that made me smile. I guess seeing people smile will make you smile. Verdict: Smiling is contagious.
2nd dayWe had to assemble in class because it was raining. There we had wet-weather program (sounds familiar right lasallians?). The first team building games was ahh. It's hard to remember. yeah, we had to retreive a water bottle from the middle of a circle without stepping into the barrier. lying on the floor is also not allowed. The first circle was small, our class,1F, had no trouble plucking it out. The PSLs made the circle bigger. It took as quite a while to figure it out, but in the end, a smart guy (didn't mean to forget his name) got it. Oh yeah, all the PSLs drew on my face. Break-time. Nothing to say.
I seriously forgot the next teambuilding game. oh yeah, I remember. Captain's ball. My class won 2 out of 3 games, which wasn't that bad. Lunch time. The char-siew fan was nice.
The mass dance was nice. Firstly, the sun dance was elaborate, but fun. The bollywood dance was simple, but beautifully choreagraphed. We learnt the song in 1hr. The next 30 min was planning for the campfire item in class, and the PSLs was obviously irritated, cause our class couldn't make a descision. We finally agreed to sing Lin Jun Jie's 会有那么一天, which I later found out was extremely nice. Peer support session again. I'm trying to remember again. Ok, i seriously can't remember. After this was suppose to be dismissal, but I had to stay for badminton training. I finally reached home at 8pm. yes, that's right, 8pm.
3rd dayWe started with flag raising ceremony at the parade square. After that we had peer support session, which was really fun. Everyone of us had to do the lingo. (or limbo, dunno how to spell) After that was breaktime. Once again, nothing to say. Then, the CCA trials began. It didn't need to go, cause' of DSA. And the first trial was coincidentally, badminton. So I decided to stay with my team while my class tried it out. Fun, fun, fun. My class also went for table tennis trials. Then, they moved on. Meanwhile, I was getting bored. So I decided to join with my class again. I found them at the volleyball court. I joined the trial for fun. In the end they wanted me, which I wasn't sure why. So what if i can jump 2.6m? After that, where did we go? I can't quite remember. I think we went to wushu. Yeah, that was boring. After that was lunch? I think so. We met below the flagpole, and then moved on to athletics. While they were running, me and Kenderick were buying drinks for everyone. Then, I went to the basketball court, where I also participated in trials. The class was splitted into two, and we played a match. My group won. The coach then narrowed down the shortlist and we played with another class. That was a trash. Then we went back to class, and prepared for our item. Let me tell you, it rocked. We were than given our orientation t-shirt, in which we changed into and then ate dinner. After that, we went to the UG village, in which all our PSLs were in one of them. (qiaowei was obviously the most passionate) We gathered together in the hall. Then, we went to the field, in which our campfire was going to be held. We were extremely high and the cheering was probably the most fun I've had in the three days. I cannot describe how vibrant the atmosphere was. The campfire began, and the group performances began. Things had gone so well, something had to go wrong. And it did. It rained. So my class had to perform the next week. Still, fun, fun, and more fun.
So, what's the point of typing this super long post? I'll summarise here.
RV people can get high in the snap of a finger. They are extremely sociable and passionate about the school. My PSLs taught me that, so rock on qiaowei, Kenderick and wei cheng. I thought I would never find a school as great as DLS, or friends as great as Lasallians. But i found it, and i found it in RV. So now, if you offered me to transfer to a top school, I would refuse. In other words, RV, you have won my heart.
Monday, January 01, 2007
-10:26 AM
Yesterday was New Year's Eve in my church, which I know am proud to say has two regional centres, one at Adam Road and one massive building at Paya Lebar. Trust me, it was amazing, truly amazing.
At 4pm, I met my section at Paya Lebar MRT, and then we took the bus to church. When we reached there, there was an extremely long quee for people going into the LT for cell group communion. Really, the queue was even longer than the longest queue in Escape. Still. We finally got into the LT, where the leaders were briefed and then we moved into the unfinished library. (really unfinished, the cement on the ground has just been layed out) We stood in a circle, and then we just communed, praying for each other, partaking of the emblems with each other and finally Pastor Gary (Youth pastor for
Trinity@Adam, which is where I'm going) prayed for all of us. That was great.
After that, we took the bus to the post office headquarters, where we were to eat our dinner. We ate in Macdonalds, and then chatted for 1hr until it was time to go.
Right, now it was Watchnight.(our church's countdown) I had to join my family because of some reasons, but that's not the main point. The main point was to worship God and break into the new year. Normally, I would try to describe it or at least put sermon notes. Hmm. I'm just lost for words now. It was...it was absolutely amazing. I suppose you have to experience it to truly know what it means. erm. I'm just thinking of such a great year I've been through, and yet, the best is yet to come, cause' God still has great things destined for you, for Ignyte, and for Trinity Christian Centre. The best is yet to come...
Anyway, I reached home at 2am and immediately flopped down into bed, so now I'll visit every blog and give them New Year's greetings. My New Year's resolution is short: I'm going to leave a purpose-driven life. Blessed New Year everybody!!
No limits, no boundaries. I see increase all around me. Stretch out, reach out. Release me, enlarge my territory.
